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US 6,183,312 B2Granted
Electrical contact
AssigneeThe Whitaker Corporation
InventorToru Yamamoto
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AssigneeThe Whitaker Corporation
InventorToru Yamamoto
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The present invention provides, in a simple form, an electrical contact in which a latch member protective section, which protects a flexible latch member and prevents reverse insertion of the electrical contact into a connector housing, is structurally strengthened, and which is equipped with an anti-overstress member that prevents overstress in the flexible latch member. The electrical contact 1 is equipped with a latching section 20 which has a flexible latch member 25 that latches the contact to a connector housing. The latching section is equipped with a latch member protective section 21 comprising of outside wall portion 21a, which is raised upward from a side wall 22, and whose upper end protrudes upward beyond the free end of the flexible latch member 25, and an inside wall portion 21b, which is folded downward from an upper end of the outside wall portion 21a, and an anti-overstress member 24, which is bent toward another side wall 23 from the inside wall portion 21b, so that the anti-overstress member 24 can be engaged by the flexible latch member 25.
An electrical contact comprising a contact section (10) having a spring contact member (16), a latching section (20) having a flexible latch member (25), and a latch member protective section (21), characterized in that:
An electrical contact comprising a contact section (10) having a spring contact member (16), a latching section (20) having a flexible latch member (25), and a latch member protective section (21), characterized in that
An electrical contact comprising a contact section (10) having a spring contact member (16), a latching section (20) having a flexible latch member (25), and a latch member protective section (21), characterized in that
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.